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Häskä verbs are highly inflected; they inflect for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and gender agreement. | Häskä verbs are highly inflected; they inflect for tense, aspect, voice, mood, and gender agreement. | ||
In the imperative, the subject is omitted. The cohortative ('let's VERB') uses the syntax ''VERB | In the imperative, the subject is omitted. The cohortative ('let's VERB') uses the syntax ''VERB yac'', lit. 'VERB with us (exc)'. | ||
Verbs and adjectives are actually predicate nouns, so a patient trigger verb can be used as a patient noun just by placing a case marker in front of it. | Verbs and adjectives are actually predicate nouns, so a patient trigger verb can be used as a patient noun just by placing a case marker in front of it. |
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